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No. 1About

The art is the quilt. The engineering is the pattern.

Lineage was designed by Debbie Rhodes and Allison Baumken. The quilt came first; the pattern was drawn from the maker’s own notes, cutting plans and layout, and then checked against them square by square.

Photograph of the original Lineage quilt, in the ORIGINAL colourway, on a child’s bed with both ends draped over the sides.
Photograph of the finished quilt, in the ORIGINAL colourway. The original quilt on the founder’s son’s bed, both ends draped over the sides.
No. 2Who

A mother, a daughter, and one quilt.

Debbie Rhodes

Co-designer. made the original quilt

Debbie sewed the original Lineage: every row, every seam pressed open, from her own cutting plan. The pattern is a reconstruction of that quilt from her notes, and she is the one who answers when a question is a quilting question.

Allison Baumken

Co-designer and shop owner

The original went on Allison’s son’s bed, and that is where QLT started: a quilt worth turning into a pattern other people could make. She runs the shop, the colourways and Colour Lab.

A digitally rendered portrait of Allison Baumken, wrapped in the quilt in the Cayenne & Glass colourway, seated in front of a wood-panelled wall.Digitally rendered
No. 3Colour

Striking rather than safe.

Every colourway is taken off something real — a rug, a painting, a palette card — and then run against the quilt’s own seam map, pair by pair, weighted by how much seam length each pair actually shares. That is how a palette that looks lovely as six squares but loses a tenth of its piecing gets caught before it is published.

See the colourways
No. 4What has been checked

What has been checked, and what has not.

  • The reconstruction reconciles to the confirmed finished size

    75" × 96" for the Twin, in both directions, with nothing adjusted to make it fit. The other sizes are composed from the same rows by the same engine.

  • The piece count agrees by two independent routes

    Counted from her own written totals and again from the composed layout, which share no arithmetic, and the two agree.

  • The pieces tile the quilt exactly

    7200 square inches of pieces in a quilt of the same area, with no gap and no overlap.

  • The layout matches the designer’s own drawing where the drawing reaches

    6675 of 7200 square inches checked cell by cell (92.7%). Her drawing stops before the bottom of the quilt, so 525 square inches are not covered by this check at all.

    Partial coverage, published rather than rounded up.

No. 5What this does not claim
  • No quilt has been sewn in any colourway but the original, and nothing here is presented as a photograph of one.
  • There are no reviews, no ratings and no customer counts, because there are no customers yet.